An archaeological evaluation by trial-trenching at ‘Playgolf’, Bakers Lane, Westhouse Farm, Colchester, Essex: May 2012

Archaeological evaluation was carried out at ‘Playgolf’, Westhouse Farm, Bakers Lane, Colchester ahead of the construction of a coffee shop and new car parking. The site is located 2.5km to the north-west of Colchester, in the Lexden area, and is to the west of Moat Farm Dyke, part of the extensive and complex earthwork
defensive system of pre-Roman Colchester. It lies within an enclosure known from cropmarks and believed to date to the Early Iron Age.
Two trial-trenches were excavated during the evaluation. One of these located the western side of the enclosure producing pottery sherds and finds dated to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Roman activity, in the form of a field boundary, was also recorded
on the site.